For the fourth consecutive year, Louisiana Tech was the Western Athletic Conference’s NCAA’s “Pack the House” challenge winner for its marketing and promotions campaign for the Lady Techsters Feb. 5 win over Fresno State at the Thomas Assembly Center.

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Lincoln Parish may not have had any state champions in baseball this spring, but they’ve got some national recognition to carry into the 2013 season.

Four teams from the parish are included in the Top 100 of the final national polls announced for the Large School and Small School divisions by Prep Sports Nation, a bi-quarterly publication devoted to high school athletics.

I still remember the first photo I ever saw of someone in Louisiana with a wild turkey gobbler. Thirty years or so ago, north Louisiana had few wild turkeys with a short season and areas open to hunting few and far between. Anyone who could bag a gobbler under these conditions had something special going for him. He had to be either extremely lucky, or he was a darn good turkey hunter.